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Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby de- UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

`HENRY s. sTEAUss, 0E NEw YORK, N. Y.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,709, dated February 15, 1881.

Application filed August 14, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom it 'may concern Be it known that I, HENRY S. STRAUss, of the city and county of New York,in the State of N ew York, have invented a new and useful clare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof and of its mode or manner of operation, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and making a part of this specification.

Figure l 'shows a hipsection of a corset, and Fig. 2 shows the re-enforce piece detached.

The hip-section, Fig. '1, is provided with long vertical bones aa, running from the top to the bottom of the corset and between these short bones b b are disposed laterally, as shown.

The re-cn force piece, Fig. 2, is provided with bones d, running vertically from the top and from the bottom to central cross-bones, c, which are arranged to run from the back edge of the piece downward to the front edge, as shown.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of corsets, in strengthening that part ot' the corset which rests upon and above the hips of the wearer. -This is the part of the corset which wears out very rapidly, and which also requires great flexibility in order to be comfortable to the wearer.

My invention consists in strengthening this. portion of the corset by means of a removable auxiliary part, shown in the drawings and set forth in the claim. This removable part is constructed of any suitable material, and is provided with bones inserted in pockets, in the same manner as the bones are inserted in the parts of corsets as now usuallyT made.

In arranging the bones in the two sections they should be disposed so that the bones of one section will cross those of the other at an angle, as thus the bones of one part will brace and support the bones of the other part, and have a tendency to distribute the strain equally on all the bones of both these sections. I therefore construct the parts as shown in the drawings, making the hip-section of the corset, Fig. l

bottom of the part to the central cross-bones c, f

extending from the rear portion of the part forward and downward to its front edge. It is not essential to my invention, however, to dispose the bones in the several parts described, as is shown in the drawings; but the disposition ot' the bones in either part may be varied, so long as the bones of the corset structure and of the removable auxiliary part are disposed so as to be at angles to each other when the two are connected. This removable reenforce part, Fig. 2, is attached to the corset on the inner side-the side nearest the body of' the wearer-by being buttoned on or by being tied on by means of eyelets and tapes, as shown in the drawings, or by any other means that will keep it well in position, and at the same time make it easily detachable, it' required. By this arrangement the hip portionot' a corset retains its required flexibility and is greatly strengthened; and a corset so constructed will wear much longer and keep its shape much better than a corset made in the usual way without a re-enforce of the hip-section.

I do not claim, broadly, the strengthening of a corset by means of a re-enforce piece 5 but,

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A corset having its hip-section provided with lateral bones b and vertical bones a, each extending from the'top to the bottom of the corset, in combination with a removable re` HENRY S. STRAUSS.

Witnesses:

J oHN J. P. FAGAN, JoHN H. STEENWEETH. 

